Inwood Eden –

Doing the first little post on this site about the mommy garden space made me remember that I like blogging, so, last week I went out to my friend’s garden, in Houston, to see what was happening in the life of a real urban permaculturalist . . .

Once I saw Mickey demonstrate to a group how to start a camp fire by rubbing two sticks together. He made it look easy, but, have you ever tried to do that?

. . .. IT’s hard!

Putting together a Permaculture garden on a budget requires so much resourcesfulness, you’d be assured that anyone who pulls one off is a bad ass!

And he says he didn’t even stick that sticker on the filing cabinet, he says it came that way when he picked it up off a curb from someone’s heavy trash! He brought it to his garden to help organize his beekeeping tools!

that’s BAD ASS!. . .

Permaculturalists see the world in different ways than many of us, in that they are always looking for things that they can use to better their permaculture experiments. .

For instance, this garden bed is slowly being formed from Flowstone, Urbanite and Silica!. . . .

I started to jot down all these stone names in my book so that I could go make one, but silly me, those are just fancy terms for concrete!

Yes, recycling conrete for a garden purpose! There’s a novel idea. .

But there are more ways than one to build a garden wall!. . .

Winter here is mild, and lots of citrus! …

Kumquat, Loquat. . .

Ujukitsu!. .

You could go overboard planting citrus! It’s easy to do that here in Houston!

Papaya. . .

(the bottom one’s ripe).

It’s kind of hard to see, but if you look across the tops of these, you’ll see that every tree is different!. .

Avocado.

Fig Tree…. It’s winter now.

Stevia plant!

It was fun to look around and see things like the end of the loofah! . . .

Here is a loofah fruit still hanging around from last season. . . (loofah is actually a goard and a vegetable!)

Once I had some loofah seeds that someone gave me, so I traded them to Mickey for a few nice planter pots and a fish bowl, and then he planted the seeds, and in a few months he brought me a box of loofah, which, I still use in my bathroom and all around my house!
Mickey is still producing loofah on this arbour that he scavenged from Levy Park when it was shutting down.